Psychiatric mnemonics: Personality
Cluster personality disorders Cluster A Disorder =
Atypical. Unusual and eccentric.
Cluster B Disorder = Beast. Uncontrolled wildness.
Cluster C Disorder = Coward [avoidant type], Compulsive
[obsessive-compulsive type], or Clingy [dependent type].
Middle adolescence (14-17 years): characteristics HERO:
Heterosexual crushes/ Homosexual Experience
Education regarding short term benefits
Risk taking
Omnipotence
· And there is interest in being a Hero (popular).
Borderline personality: traits PRAISE:
Paranoid ideas
Relationship instability
Affective instability/ Abandonment fears/ Angry outbursts
Impulsiveness/ Identity disturbance
Suicidal behaviour/ Self-harming behaviour
Emptiness
Substance dependence: features (DSM IV) “WITHDraw
IT“:
· 3 of 7 within 12 month period:
Withdrawal
Interest or Important activities given up or reduced
Tolerance
Harm to physical and psychosocial known but continue to use
Desire to cut down, control
Intended time, amount exceeded
Time spent too much
Erikson’s developmental stages “The sad tale of Erikson
Motors”:
· The stages in order by age group:
Mr. Trust and MsTrust had an auto they were ashamed
of. She took the initiative to find the guilty party. She found
the industry was inferior. They were making cars with dents
[identity] and rolling fuses [role confusion]. Mr. N.T. Macy
[intimacy] isolated the problem, General TVT absorbed the
cost. In the end, they found the tires were just gritty and the should
have used de- spare!
